Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab

• Autor(a) principal: D'Acosta Rivera, Jorge Ramon
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Domenico, Silvia Marcia Russi de, Sauaia, Antonio Carlos Aidar
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Gestão de Negócios (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbgn.fecap.br/RBGN/article/view/1653
• topic: Valores Pessoais. Valores Laborais. Times de Alta Gerência. Resultados de Times. Laboratório de Gestão.; Comportamento Organizacional

Several studies relate organizational outcomesto the performance of top management teams(TMT). Some of these studies suggest thatthe process of strategic choice is influenced bythe cognitive background and values of theexecutives in those teams, and have focused onthe composition of TMT, using demographicvariables as proxies for deep-level characteristics.The aim of this descriptive and exploratorystudy was to verify directly the influence ofdeep-level characteristics – the dissimilarities ofTMT members’ individual values – on the teamoutcomes. This research was carried out using aquantitative method within a public universitymanagement lab environment located in thecity of São Paulo, applying two value surveysvalidated in Brazil on TMT composed of BusinessManagement and Accounting undergraduatessubmitted to a business game situation, resultingin a non-probabilistic sample formed of 32 teamscomprising 186 students with valid responses.Through multiple linear regression technique,two statistically significant regression modelswere found. It was found that the improvedperformance of TMT occurs when members differin the importance assigned to values related toopenness to change and have similar appreciationof values related to rules and to security in life(conservation values ) and the pursuit of power(prestige), giving evidence that this can occurnot only in a laboratory environment, but also inthe business environment, where time pressuresand competition are even more severe and,therefore, more subject to deep-level subjectivecharacteristics.Keywords: Personal values. Work values.Top management teams. Team outcomes.Management lab.